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"Flip the switch on, and the rats remember. Flip it off, and the rats forget," Theodore Berger of the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering's Department of Biomedical Engineering said.
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Originally posted by tamusan
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All technology caries the danger of misuse. Either we float in limbo without advancement, or we embrace new technology with the hope that greed is overcome.
US SCIENTISTS say they've developed an on-off memory switch that helped laboratory rats remember a behaviour they had forgotten.
But when they implanted an electronic brain prosthetic that duplicated the signalling process between the sub-regions, the rats could remember again.
Originally posted by tamusan
reply to post by SeekerLou
Those are also interesting articles. Thank you for sharing.
I hope they are able to find the right pathways to treat people, without giving debilitating side effects.